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4000 —Portrait of Venetian Lady by Pietro Longhi 

Her dress of orange-colored velvet is covered with pearls and silver galon. She wears 
a charmingly painted corsage bouquet and has a blue mantel thrown around her 
shoulders. Seated at a little table she is pouring herself a cup of chocolate. The old 
frame is carved and gilded. 


Height , 3 feet , 9 inches ; width , 3 feet . 


$ 800.00 











SALE OF THE 

CONTENTS OF THE CARMINATI PALACE 
in the WANAMAKER STORE, NEW YORK 


T WENTY years ago in Venice, the Counts of the Carminati 
Family sold their palace and everything that was in it. The 
furniture and the personal belongings were scattered far 
and wide. 

The palace itself was purchased by an Italian whose reputation 
as a connoisseur is known in nearly every city in Europe. An art 
lover and a devotee of eighteenth century Venice, he decided to 
put back into the palace whatever he could obtain of the original 
furniture and to complete it by adding things from other Venetian 
Palaces—in fact, to reconstitute and rehabilitate the Carminati. 

It was easy to trace and re-purchase some of the original Car¬ 
minati furnishings and these were put back in their old places. 
The empty spaces were filled by discriminating selections which 
kept the spirit and the atmosphere of the original things. When it 
was done the owner had created something that was actually a 
museum of eighteenth century Venice. 

Nobody lived there. Two marble dogs guarded the entrance. 
An old custodian came from echoing passages to unbolt the great 
doors. Yet the whole place gave the impression of real and human 
inhabitants who had just pushed back their chairs from the dinner 
table or who had just laid down a book, closed the spinet in the 
music room and gone for a giro in a gondola. 

The palace became a hobby with its owner. Once or twice a 
w r eek he visited there, wandered through the salons, sat for hours in 
the halls and gave himself up to the illusion of being transported 
backward two centuries in time. The art critics, writers and an¬ 
tiquarians who visited Venice were occasionally taken by him to 
see the palace as a great treat, but the public generally knew noth¬ 
ing of what was behind its walls. 

A chance question opened the doors of the Carminati Palace to 
the Wanamaker Collector of Antiques this last Summer; one visit 


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led to another, and finally to the purchase of practically the entire 
contents of the palace for the Wanamaker Store. 

“What a loss to Venice!” exclaimed a well-known New York 
collector when he heard of the purchase. “This was a really 
valuable museum.” 

The exhibition and sale of the contents of the Carminati 
Palace with about 2,000 pieces of furniture and bibelots will be 
held on the Floor of Antiques in the Wanamaker Store. 

Perhaps the most interesting part of the collection is the painted 
eighteenth century Venetian Furniture which numbers one hundred 
and sixty-five pieces. So far as anyone knows, this is the largest 
and most representative collection of its kind that can be seen 
anywhere today. 

Walnut Furniture of the eighteenth century also takes a promi¬ 
nent place in the collection and a few fine pieces of seventeenth 
century furniture are also to be found. 

The prints in themselves form an interesting group, represent¬ 
ing the work of the eighteenth century Venetian Masters such as 
Longhi, Guardi and Canaletto. 

Prices are so low that these treasures of the past actually cost 
less than furniture made today, yet in them lies the personality, the 
atmosphere, the beauty and breeding, the intangible something 
that is acquired only by living with generations of gentlefolk. 


January, 1921 





The Powder Room of the Palazzo Carminati 

Photograph taken in the Palace, of the charming little Stucco Room where the ladies “tired 
their hair” and dusted powder on their wigs. 

This room has been reproduced in Stucco Au Quatrieme and is furnished with the same 
furniture that stood in the original powder room. 
































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T HE pageant of the antiquaire—the very shadow of history—has seldom 
held anything more interesting than the removal of the contents of the 
Palazzo Carminati from Venice to New York. A vast treasure house 
shut away from the public—the playground of one collector who spent his 
time searching for the flower dust of the eighteenth century—the concrete 
beauty that could still speak! Here is la romanza. Oberon is not dead. To¬ 
day his wand still makes music. The wonder of a fairy process is upon us as 
we gaze at the bewildering array of loveliness transported from the far-away 
dreaming lagoons. The Carminati Collection of furniture and objets d’art 
will surprise all discriminating lovers of eighteenth century Venice—even her 
most faithful visitors. 

It is always an achievement to re-create the setting of any ghostly com¬ 
pany. The hundreds of intimate things that were essential to daily living 
possess little voices. The very tables and chairs of many forms and colors 
must be gathered to whisper harmony. Time seems to humanize and give 
personality to oggetti that have been used and cared for. The connoisseur 
who purchased the home of the Carminati’s two decades ago and searched for 
and restored many of its ancient habiliments, was a genius in his simpatia 
per il passato. Step out of one’s gondola in San Stae and enter the courtyard 
where the noise of distant waters seems to fall upon the ear like strains in 
Respighi’s Le Fontane di Roma. Here are the gates of this noble family, 
originally of Bergamo, whose names were inscribed in the Libro d ’ oro in 1687. 

If one could summon some gay whisper of eighteenth century Venice, the 
revenante would be Lady Mary Montague. I see her in the white dusty heat 
entering the Palazzo, droping her new volume fresh from London, “The 
History of a Lady Platonist.” For the moment she has forgotten the harsh 
treatment of the British Minister—the John Murray who could not be trusted 
to change a sequin. The wide, cool hall with its Venetian odour of brine and 
spices, pleases her. Loiterers rise from the dolphin benches to make obeisance. 
A Moorish page stumbles forward to show the way to the Powder Room. One 
breath of amber powder for her hair, a pat of vermilion on the cheeks, a sip of 
maraschino and we begin our pilgrimage. 

The salons of the Palazzo Carminati were so charmingly named. The 
Room of the Harp, The Gallery of Palms, The Landscape Room, painted by 
Zais, The Maggiotto Salon, The Quiet Room—sometimes called the Missal 
Room with its great quattrocento table. Each room possessed a wealth of 
luxurious beauty, as the reader of this catalogue can glean today, but I am 
sure that Lady Mary flitted through them all towards the Room of Ships. 
Hers was an adventurous mind and her personality suggests a stalwart frigate. 
What stranger has failed ever to thrill over the water craft of Venice from the 
immortal Bucintoro down to the meanest barge—Oh torn sails of the Republic 


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—white—red—and black! .... Looking at the Carminati souvenirs 
of the sea and the lagoons, the mariner who lives in every heart stirs with a 
plaintive satisfaction. The old models of lost ships, the portraits of gondoliers 
in the family livery, records of Regattas, Water Carnivals, rowers and ath¬ 
letes, and as a stately background, the maps of the world made for Louis XV. 

It would be difficult to say whether the Palazzo Carminati antiques are 
more interesting on the score of unity or diversity. Almost all the furniture 
and decorations were produced in Venice—even the buone grazie, the painted 
cornices for curtains, are Venetian. Among the walnut pieces are several of 
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; but the eighteenth century, espe¬ 
cially the latter half, dominates and places the collection. This was the last 
brilliant phase of the Bride of the Adriatic. She was dying, but like some 
ancient beldame of great traditions she danced to her death. 

The vista of painted furniture, produced by her artisans at this period seems 
her lingering smiles. Each commode, secretaire, chair and table suggests 
some moment of carnival or mask. Where can we match such enchantments 
of color—old ivory, riotous pink, purple that has wedded blue, green of dewed 
myrtle, lucent gray as opalescent as the doves of San Marco, deep yellows and 
red like some frozen fire of sunset? Half veiling and half disclosing each 
prismatic allurement is the endless trellis of rococo flowers—dancing flowers, 
springing from magic and not earth-born. No English nor French rival pro¬ 
ducers ever caught the same note of exaggerated gayety. The Venetian 
painted furniture stands alone for sheer gioia di vivere. Today in Venice and 
all large marts it is almost unattainable. The richness of the Palazzo Car¬ 
minati collection would have created a sensation if dispersed in the home of its 
creation. 

One or two pieces of eighteenth century Italian Furniture added to a 
French, English or American Room entangle the chance visitor in a sense of 
amusing intrigue, although they may make a deep thrust at all classic tradition. 
No furniture is so feminine—so wooing—so eager to attract, so vocal. Each 
possession of some dead Lucietta is sure to have known a Zorzetto and remem¬ 
ber it. In the array of prints after that little Venetian Lancret, Pietro Longhi, 
one can recognize many of the alluring pieces. As Monnier writes: 

“The Venetian lady is recorded in a series of little painted interiors—getting 
up in the morning, seated at her dressing table, at her mirror, spinning at her 
wheel, reading, dressing, undressing, tiring her hair, taking chocolate, paying a 
visit, receiving her tailor, her hairdresser, her geography master, the negro in 
scarlet doublet who brings her note or the abbe who makes pretty speeches at 
her bedside where she lies tucked up inside the frilled sheets.” 

The Gorgeous Lady Blessington, writing to Comte d’Orsay, pictures her¬ 
self as seated by her “Venice desk” almost ready to feed the decalcomania 
parrots. There is a wealth of this decalcomania bedecked furniture from the 
Carminati salons. It is uncertain whether this ofttimes delightful fashion 
had its origin in Venice; The specimens one sees in London houses are mostly 
French. All Europe indulged in the passion for cutting up colored prints and 


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using them to embellish their furniture. Some of the most amazing examples 
are to be found as far North as the great Swedish country houses. Strange 
climatic conditions often gave the varnishes the look of priceless Martin 
lacquer. In France, examples are rarer than in Italy. Aiss6 in one of her 
letters writes: 

“We are here in the height of the new fashion for cutting colored engravings— 
every lady, great and small, is cutting away. These cuttings are pasted on 
sheets of pasteboard and then varnished. We make wall panels, screens and 
fireboards with them. There are books and engravings which cost up to 100 
lire apiece. If this fashion continues they will cut up Raphaels.” 

All Venetian palaces boast of at least one Eastern Room, with spoils from 
Caliph and Sultan exhaling an aroma of the Arabian Knights. Such rooms 
were furnished usually with a coarse but rich and varied Venetian lacquered 
furniture. The Carminati Collection holds numerous specimens created with 
true Italian feeling for Oriental fantasy. There are also pieces suggestive of 
English and Dutch work and again things so French in decoration that they 
might have been taken from drawings by Dillot, Huet, Boucher and Watteau. 
Often when furniture was finely constructed, enterprising dealers sent it to 
China and Japan for gold additions. Until quite recently, Italian lacquer 
seldom found its way to New York shops but at the present moment it is very 
much in vogue, and its prices are rapidly soaring. This is true especially of 
the Queen Anne shaped cabinets, the most English of all Italy’s eighteenth 
century production. 

On the way to the Puppet Theatre—perhaps the most enticing apartment 
of the Palazzo —were groups of the earlier walnut furniture and pieces of all 
periods preceding the little Corsican’s invasion. The sombreness of these 
shadowy stretches only enhanced the joyous effect of the little candlelit 
theatre. In the armadio lived the troupe of burattini and marionette, a col 
lection of ten-score artists. Who does not thrill over these delightful dolls— 
the mimic shades of mimicry, many a Goldoni hero or heroine faintly scented 
with an aroma like incense, as if they had been purged of past frivolity. In the 
famous diary of Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child is a perfect description 
of these miniature actors. She writes on Santa Scolastica’s Day— 

“Oh dearest Bambino, if only I could show you the puppets! The man has 
brought them against the performance next week in order to give time for any 
changes, in case the Mother Abbess or our reverend Father Confessor should 
discover something sinful about them. The Mother Superior had them all in 
her private parlour to examine through a magnifying glass. Sister Grimana 
says our Confessor took exception to some of the ladies showing so much of their 
bosom: but our Superior who is a woman of the world, answered that she was 
astonished that his Reverence did not know that a Venetian lady is allowed by 
its law of the Serene Republic to show exactly one half of her bosom and no more, 
there being no immodesty in this proceeding. I do not understand much about 
such things; but it appears the Mother Abbess pointed out that it would be an 
unwarrantable criticism on the wisdom of the Republic and also on the noble 
ladies invited to the representation, if the puppets representing the parts of 
queens, princesses and heroines had pieces of paper arranged around their should¬ 
ers as the Reverend Father had suggested. I do not know about the bodices of 
the ladies: I only know how beautiful they are, and how I should like to show 


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them to my dear Little Great one—How I should like to bring the shepherdess to 
show you. I do not really like the puppets representing ladies, though they have 
lovely skirts of flowered cloth of silver and andriennes making their hips stick 
out and bodices full of seed pearl, and patches on their cheeks and red paint, 
just like the real ladies who used to come and drink chocolate with my mother 
and my aunts. And some of them have light cloaks and big hats tied with 
bright kerchiefs and white masks like snouts, just like the ladies I used to see 
during carnival on the big staircase of Venice.” 

It is a temptation to quote more of these perfect descriptions but the ladies 
flit from us to the Sclavonians, the Turks and Ogres, the Harlequin and the 
gentle Blackamoor King. 

After the puppets must come their music—not the melodies of festival 
rendered in the galleries by the family’s hired musicians, but gentle airs played 
on one of the old spinets or harpsichords by a maiden aunt, or the worldly 
Cardinal who made surreptitious visits to San Crisostomo and San Fantiano. 
Now an aria from the Ballo degli Amori of Paisiello—perhaps some tenderer 
strain sung by La Cuzzoni or La Faustina. Who knows? These ancient 
musical instruments of the Carminati’s have heard so much melody. 

Ofttimes a choir boy with a voice that Charles Burney would have 
described as a lost nightingale, sang as the puppets danced. The owner of the 
voice was secreted usually behind the booth and quavered the falsetto 
dialogues. For the wicked men—the villains and pirates, the sea dragons and 
devils sure to appear in every exciting act, the Comber of the Dogs, the 
Gruffest Servant of the Courtyard, was summoned to roar and groan. Then 
even the sophisticated spectators trembled, remembering some little sin not 
told in confession, and the stiffly brocaded children driven from wild laughter 
to wilder tears were consoled with persagata and ginger bread. 

The hour has grown late. Time flies in the pursuit of loveliness. Lady 
Mary and the crowd of shades who flit in and out of the Palazzo are leaving. 
Servants in velvet shoes set aflame the hundreds of wax candles before the 
multitudes of mirrors and sconces. Scaramouche in his dusky robes is sure of 
safe hiding, but Giarratone’s White Pierrot of the night opens the gates of La 
Luna—unless he stands still like some frozen statue and sighs for gentle rain. 
Over the entreating arms of the Canals, wine-colored with the last sun, come 
the peal of bells, the call of trumpets and medleys of viols and lutes—all to the 
movement of water. . . . We know it is only a vision—the rustling of a 

moth-eaten curtain. Night hides the great Palazzo Carminati so silent and 
denuded. The things that were the setting of one chapter of lost Venetian 
romance lie before you. 


M OBI LI VENEZIANI DIPINTI DEL SETTECENTO 


18 th CENTURY VENETIAN PAINTED FURNITURE 


VENETIAN PAINTED FURNITURE 


“At Venice the art of furniture painting reached its highest expres¬ 
sion. In the early years of the eighteenth century, when the heavier 
forms gave way to lighter and more graceful lines, furniture treated in 
this style began its vogue and by the middle of the century had reached 
an unsurpassable state of sensuous colour and rich design. Furniture 
by this time was more varied in shape and size. Numerous smaller 
articles such as dressing-tables, writing-tables, and desks, console 
tables and variously shaped little tables with secret drawers and com¬ 
partments or with folding tops that could be converted into gaming 
tables, little hanging wall cabinets and mirror frames in addition to 
chairs, settees, chaises-longues, stools, benches, beds and commodes, all 
afforded endless opportunity for the painters to display their inexhaust¬ 
ible decorative inventions. 

“The prevailing forms were based on the French Louis Quinze style. 

“Everything in this age must please or amuse. Italians, especially 
the Venetians, could not tolerate seriousness or pain, therefore their 
furniture with pleasing curves and unsurpassable colours was made still 
further entertaining with strange flowers, birds, landscapes, and chin- 
oiseries. Colour ran riot in exquisite harmonies; yellows, creams, blues, 
and yellow-red backgrounds are decorated with various hues of finely 
proportioned areas of complementary colours. Blue and green became 
lovely backgrounds for reds, cream and gold. 

“The crowning glory of eighteenth century Venetian furniture is its 
colour and texture and the supreme examples deserve a place among the 
greatest achievements of the eighteenth century decorative arts.” 

Pages 159-160-161 and 162 WILLIAM ODOM’S “A HISTORY 
OF ITALIAN FURNITURE,” VOLUME II. 


Note —It must be remembered that: 

Quattrocento means the fourteen hundreds; i. e. the Fifteenth 
Century. 

Seicento means the sixteen hundreds; i. e. the Seventeenth Century. 

Settecento means the seventeen hundreds; i. e. the Eighteenth 
Century. 


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VENETIAN PAINTED FURNITURE 


SEDIE VENEZIANE DIPIN TE 
PAINTED VENETIAN SIDE CHAIRS 

4001—Set of Four Fine Venetian Louis XV Chairs 

Saffron color ground with flowers in sanguine; seats of old red striped 
moire, decorated stretchers. $750 set of four. 

Height of hack, 3 feet, 7 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 65 inches. 


4002— Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Side Chairs 

Painted buff color. The carved shells and mouldings are old blue. 
The backs are formed of double loops with medallions. Seats covered 
in old blue-green damask. $350 set of four. 

Height of back, 3 feet; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. 

4003— Pair of Venetian Louis XVI Painted Side Chairs 

Green and gold with cane seats. $150 pair. 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, inches. 

4004— Set of Four Red and Gold Venetian Louis XV Side Chairs 
(Two repainted). Backs and seats covered with old green damask. 

$300.00 set of four. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 1 inch; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 


4005— Four Venetian Louis XVI White and Gold Side Chairs 

The seats and backs covered with old blue damask 

$300.00 set of four. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 2 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4006— Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Painted Side Chairs 

With looped medallion backs and carved shells. The paint is greenish 
yellow with lines in two shades of green. $300.00 set of four. 

Height of back, 2 feet, Ilf inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 5| inches. 

4007— Pair of Venetian Louis XV Painted Side Chairs 

Saffron yellow ground with decorations in red. Decorated stretchers, 
old red velvet seats. $250.00 the pair. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 7f inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4008— Pair of Venetian Louis XV Painted Side Chairs 

A delicate shade of tilleul with flowers in gay colors, backs and seats 
caned. $200.00 the pair. 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4§ inches. 


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CASSETTONI VENEZIANI DIPINTI DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY VENETIAN PAINTED COMMODES 

4018— Venetian Louis XV Curvilinear Chest of Drawers 

With two drawers; painted old green with gilt mouldings and decora¬ 
tions. The top is of red antique marble. $400.00 

Height, 2 feet, 8| inches; length, 4 feet, 3 inches; greatest width of top, 1 foot, 3 inches. 


4019— Painted Louis XV Venetian Commode 

With two drawers. The groundwork is pale blue with Chinese decora¬ 
tions of birds and flowers; serpentine front and sides. $600.00 

Height, 2 feet, 9 inches; size of top, 2 feet, 1J inches; by 4 feet, 3| inches. 

4020— Small Louis XV Commode 

The top opens and the upper half swings out. The ground is painted 
pale blue with Pompeian decorations. $200.00 

Height, 2 feet, 6§ inches; length of top, 1 foot, 8 inches; width of top, 1 foot, 4§ inches. 

4021— Small Venetian Louis XV Commode 

Painted yellow with green decorations and gilt carvings; marbleized 
top. $100.00 

Height, 2 feet, 7 inches; length of top, 1 foot, 6| inches; depth, l foot, \ inch. 


4022—Pair of Large Venetian Louis XV Commodes 

With Breccia Violetta marble tops, and two small corner commodes to 
match. These are all painted pale green with fresh-colored decorations 
of flowers and scrolls. $1000.00 set of four. 

Size of large commodes. Height, 2 feet, 10 inches; length of top, 4 feet; depth, 2 feet, 
1 inch. 


4023—Red Venetian Lacquer Chest of Drawers 

With folding top that opens into a writing desk; five drawers. $350.00 

Height, 2 feet, 9 inches; height of top, 3 feet, 4 inches; width of top, 1 foot, 6 inches. 


4024— Bombe Venetian Louis XV Commode 

Carved, gilded and painted. The ground color is greenish with birds, 
flowers and Chinese figures in tones of brown. Green marbleized top, 
gilded mouldings and carvings; four draw r ers. $900.00 

Height, 2 feet, 11 inches; length of top, 3 feet, lOf inches; width of top, 1 foot, Ilf inches. 

4025— Pair of Small Yellow and Green Venetian Painted Commodes 

With double doors. $600.00 

Height, 2 feet, 7\ inches; width, 2 feet, 9 inches; depth, 1 foot, 1| inches. 

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4026— Pair of Small Venetian Mobiletti 

Curiously marbleized except for the drawers which are decorated with 
landscapes. $500.00 pair. 

Height, 9, feet, 11| inches; width, 2 feet. 

4027— Large Sulphur-Yellow Venetian Commode 

Between Louis XV and Louis XVI, with carved and gilded and applied 
decorations. Two drawers, original ring pulls. Carrara marble top. 
Height, 3 feet; length of top, 6 feet, 2 inches; depth, 2 feet, 5 inches. $800.00 

4028— Two Small Yellow Venetian Commodes 

To match. White Carrara marble tops. $700.00 pair. 

Height, 3 feet; length of lop, 2 feet; depth, 1 foot, 1 inch. 

4029— Small Venetian Louis XV Painted Commode 

With a white ground covered with pale pink roses and blue flowers and 
leaves. $150.00 

Height, 2 feet, 3 inches; length of top, 1 foot, 7 inches; depth, 1 foot, 2 inches. 

4030— Large Venetian Louis XV Commode 

To match 4029. $800.00 

Height, 2 feet, 11 inches; length of top, 4 feet, 4 inches; depth, 2 feet, 1 inch. 

4031— Small Painted Chest of Trays for Laces 

(Repainted) salmon pink with flowers. $175.00 

Height, 2 feet, 3| inches; length of top, 2 feet, 9§ inches; depth, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4032— Venetian Louis XVI Painted Bureau 

With two small and two large drawers, white ground with a blue ribbon, 
blue lines' and roses. $300.00 

Height, 3 feet; length of top, 4 feet, 1 inch; depth, 1 foot, 9 inches. 


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CONSOLIDI VENEZIANE DIPINTE DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY PAINTED VENETIAN CONSOLES 

4033— Pair of Venetian Louis XVI Painted Consoles 

With stretchers. The groundwork is green with the mouldings and 
carvings picked out in yellow ochre, tops of red African marble. 

$550.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 9 inches; length of top, 4ifeet, 2 inches; width, 1 foot, 8 inches. 

4034— Large Painted Venetian Louis XV Console 

Greenish ground with flowers in rose; gilt carvings. The top is of red 
Verona marble. $600.00 

Height, 2 feet, 9§ inches; length of top, 5 feet, 3 inches; icidth of top, 2 feet, 6 inches. 

4035— Pair of Small Venetian Painted Consoles 

To match the above, red Verona marble tops. $600.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 9| inches; length of top, 3 feet, 4 inches; width of top, 1 foot, 10 inches. 

4036— Pair of Carved Green and Gold Venetian Consoles 

Tops veneered with yellow Siena marble. $400.00 pair. 

4037— Pair of Venetian Louis XV Consoles 

Painted in two shades of blue; decorated stucco tops (one broken). 

$350.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 65 inches; length of lop, 3 feet, 6 inches; width of top, 1 foot, 9 inches. 

4038— Fine Large Painted Louis XV Console 

Buttercup yellow with designs in dark green. A carved and gilded 
painted apron adds to the beauty of the piece. Marbleized green top, 
painted in geometric designs. $850.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 inches; length of top, 8 feet, 3 inches; width of top, 2 feet, 6 inches. 

4039— Pair of Yellow Painted Venetian Louis XV Consoles 
Decorated with small flowers. Shaped apron, white marble tops. 

$700.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 11 inches; length of top, 3 feet, 11 inches; depth of top, 1 foot, 10 inches. 

4040— Green and Ochre Painted Venetian Console 

With red jasper marble top. Decorated stretcher with urn. $450.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 § inches; length of top, 4 feet, 6 inches; depth of top, 2 feet. 

4041— Venetian Louis XV Console 

Yellow green with carved and painted flowers on apron. Top of 
African yellow and rose marble. $300.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 inches; length of top, 4 feet, 1 inch; depth of top, 2 feet. 


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POLTRONE VENEZIANE DIPINTE DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY PAINTED VENETIAN ARMCHAIRS 

4042— Set of Six Yellow and Gold Venetian Armchairs 

Style Louis XVI, canelure legs; covered with old yellow flowered satin 
damask. $650.00 set of six. 

Height of hack, 2 feet, 7§ inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4043— Three Venetian Chairs 

Two arm and one side in the style of the Regence, painted green and 
gold with caned backs and seats. $500.00 for three. 

Height of two arm chairs, 2 feet, 8 inches; height of seats, 1 foot, 3| inches; height 
of side chair, 3 feet, 7 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4| inches. 

4044— Set of Six Louis XVI Painted Armchairs 

Medallion backs, the corners filled in with lattice. $750.00 set of six. 

4045— Venetian Louis XVI Armchairs Painted Yellow 

With decorations of small flowers $150.00 

Height of hack, 2 feet, 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4046— Pair of Painted Venetian Louis XV Armchairs 

And folding card table. All three pieces are painted green and charm¬ 
ingly decorated with flowers in blue and red. $600.00 for three. 

Height of table, 2 feet, 5 inches; top closed, 2 feet, 9 inches by 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4046— A— Set of Four Louis XVI Armchairs 

With caned shield-shaped backs and caned seats. The old paint is 
cream and gold. $350.00 set of four. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 1| inches; height of seat, l foot, 3 inches. 

4047— Set of Six Venetian Louis XV Armchairs 

Green and gilt with decorations of flowers. Covered with old peach- 
colored damask and blue galon. $600.00 set of six. 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10^ inches; height of seat, l foot, 4| inches. 

4048— Large Venetian Louis XV Painted Armchair 

Frame painted blue with floral designs in gay colors. Gilt mouldings, 
slip backs and seats in old blue damask. $250.00 

Height of back, 4<feet; height of seat, 1 foot, 9| inches. 

4049— Venetian Louis XV Armchair 

Painted lemon yellow, with a line of old blue and decorations of flowers. 
Caned seat and back. $150.00 

Height of back, 2 feet, 9| inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4| inches. 


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VENETIAN PAINTED FURNITURE 


4050— Venetian Louis XV Armchair 

Painted green with flowers, double loop back. Seat in old green bro¬ 
caded velvet. $150.00 

Height of bade, ifeet, 10 £ inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4051— Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Armchairs 

With medallion backs and seats covered with old green striped moire. 
The frames are painted green and gold. $800.00 set of four. 

Height of back, 3 feet, inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. 

4052— Pair of Large Venetian Louis XV Armchairs 

Painted green and gold, and covered with old green brocaded satin. 
Height of back, 3 feet, 6 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. $250.00 pair. 

4053— Set of Fine Venetian Louis XV Painted Armchairs 
Yellow with caned seats and backs, green mouldings. 

$900.00 set of six. 

Height of back, ifeet, 11 inches; height of seat, l foot, 3 inches. 

4054— Small Venetian Armchair 

With original rush seat. Painted cream and decorated with flowers. 
Height of back, ifeet, 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, S inches. $100.00 

4055— Venetian Louis XVI Bergere 

The frame painted yellow with flowers; covered with old green striped 
moire. $300.00 

Height, ifeet, 7% inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 3 inches. 

4056— Six Pale Green and Gold Painted Venetian Louis XVI Arm¬ 
chairs 

Covered with old peach-colored damask. $500.00 set of six. 

Height of back, 3 feet; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. 


4057— Green and Ochre Colored Venetian Louis XVI Painted Arm¬ 
chair 

The back decorated with flowers. $100.00 

Height of back, ifeet, 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4058— Yellow and Gilt Venetian Louis XVI Armchair 

Covered with old striped satin. $150.00 

Height of back, ifeet, 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 3 inches. 

4059— Set of Eight Venetian Louis XV Armchairs 

With carved backs and seats; the frames are painted white with a line of 
bright green. $500.00 set of eight. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 1 inch; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. 


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MOBILI VENEZIANI DIPINTI 


DIVANI VENEZIANI DIPINTI DEL SETTECENTO 

18th CENTURY PAINTED VENETIAN 
CANAPES, LITS DE REPOS AND SOFAS 

4060— Venetian Louis XVI Painted Sofa 

With eight legs, six of which are grooved. The frame is cream color 
with green lines and small medallions. $350.00 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10 inches; length, 6 feet, 3 inches. 

4061, 4062, 4063— Three Venetian Louis XV Canapes 

With caned seats and backs; painted cream color with lines and flower 
decorations in green. $350.00 each. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 3 inches; length, 4 feet, 7 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 3 inches. 

4064— Venetian Regence Seggio 

Or lit de repos, carved and painted, with roll ends. $400.00 

Height, 2 feet, 6 inches; length, 7 feet, 11 inches; depth, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4065— Venetian Louis XVI Painted Sofa and Four Armchairs 

Pale green with carved rope mouldings; covered with old striped green 
linen. $850.00 set. 

Sofa—Height of back, 2 feet, 8 inches; length, 6 feet, 2 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 
inches. Arm Chairs — Height of back, 3 feet, 2 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. 


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ARMADII VENEZIANI DIP1NT1 DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY PAINTED CLOTHES-PRESSES 

4067— Large Painted Venetian Armadio 

The doors panelled and painted with pastoral subjects; decorated sides, 
cornice at top and bottom. $450.00 

Height, 7 feet, 5 inches; length, 7 feet, 5 inches; depth, 2 feet, 3§ inches. 

4068— Pale Blue Painted Venetian Armadio 

With cream colored panels outlined with rose red. The two long and 
narrow panels on the sides open into small cupboards. On the top is a 
painted and cut-out cornice. $400.00 

Height, 8 feet, 5 inches; length, 5 feet, 8 inches; depth, 1 foot, 7 inches. 


CAN TON I ERE VENEZIANE DIPINTE DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY PAINTED CORNER CUPBOARDS 

4069— Pair of Black and Gold Venetian Lacquer Corner Cupboards 

Double curved doors with bronze hinges; three shelves in each cupboard. 
The bases are solid. $600.00 pair. 

Height, 4 feet, 4 inches; width, 1 foot, 11 inches. 

4070— Large Painted Corner Cupboard 

In yellow with decorations in green and grisaille figures. 250.00 

Height, 7 feet; width, 4 feet, 4 inches. 

4071— Pair of Small Painted Venetian Corner Cupboards 

Cream ground with red flowers. $150.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 11 inches; width, 2 feet, 1 inch. 


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MOBILI VENEZIANI DIPINTI 


LETTI VENEZIANI DIPINTI DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY PAINTED VENETIAN BEDS 

4072— Carved 18th Century Venetian Bed 

About 1750. The frame is painted in soft blue and gold. The high 
carved headboard is cream colored, outlined with a blue moulding, and 
has a painted medallion of a Madonna in the center; a carved gilt shell 
is at the top. There is no footboard: two low posts. $850.00 

Height of headboard, 6 feet, S inches; length of bed, 6 feet, 8 inches; width, 5 feet, 5 
inches; height of footposts, 2 feet, 4 inches. 

4073— Large Venetian Louis XV Painted Bed 

In pale green, the headboard decorated with a design of pomegranates 
and flowers to look like old Venetian brocade. Two low posts at the 
foot with claw feet holding a gilded ball. The frame is carved and 
gilded. $1200.00 

Height of headboard, 6 feet, 9 inches; length, 7 feet, 9 inches; width, 6 feet, 6 inches. 

4074— Painted Venetian Louis XV Headboard and Two Posts for Bed 
Green with cut-out and applied decorations. Mouldings gilt. $450.00 

4075 — Venetian Louis XV Painted Bed 

In yellow and green. The high headboard is painted to look like old 
brocade in a gilt frame with shell. $500.00 

Height of headboard, 7 feet, 11 inches; width, 5 feet, 11 inches; length, 6 feet, 8 inches; 
height of footposts, 2 feet, 5 inches. 

4076 — Painted Red and Gold Venetian Louis XV Bed 

High headboard with painted medallion. $350.00 

Height of headboard, 6 feet, 5 inches; width of bed, 6 feet; length, 7 feet, 10 inches; 
height of footposts, 2 feet, 8 inches. 

4077— Carved and Painted Headboard of Venetian Bed 

Painted pale blue with gilt carvings. $250.00 

Height, 5 feet, 6 inches; width, 6 feet, 8 inches. 

4078 — A Very Fine Venetian Louis XV Bed 

With the headboard covered with old French brocade in a gracefully 
carved and gilded frame. Two carved wood and gilded Amorini form 
the footposts. This is one of the best examples of the period. $1000.00 






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VENETIAN PAINTED FURNITURE 


TOILETTE VENEZIANE DIPINTE DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY PAINTED VENETIAN DRESSING CASES 

4079— Very Fine Louis XV Red Venetian Toilet Mirror 

Painted with medallions of landscapes and small figures. All the 
mouldings are gilt. Two drawers below the mirror. $550.00 

Height, 3 feet, 7 inches; width, 2 feet, 3 inches. 

4080— Green and Gold Lacquered Venetian Louis XV Toilet Mirror 

With cupboard below. Chinoiserie designs. $400.00 

Height, 3 feet, 8 inches; length, it feet, 3 inches. 


4081— Painted Venetian Credenza 

With medallions of figures on doors. Blue-green paint with vermilion 
on edges and moulding. $350.00 

Height, 3 feet, 7 inches; length of top, 5 feet, 5 inches; depth of top, 1 foot, 8| inches. 

4082— Venetian Painted Louis XV Prie Dieu With Carved Shell 

Height, 2 feet, 9 inches. $150.00 



MOBILI VENEZIANI DIPINTI 


STIPI VENEZIANI DIPINTI DEL SETTECENTO 
18th CENTURY VENETIAN BUREAU-SECRETAIRES 

4083— Very Fine Yellow Lacquer Venetian Bureau-Secretaire 
With applied designs of ships, landscapes and figures. The upper 
half has two mirror doors, which are surmounted by a finely carved 
and gilded cornice. 

The interiors of the doors are covered with pastoral scenes; and the 
shaped book shelves, gilded on the edges, are painted rose pink and 
applied with designs of tulips, roses and other graceful floral designs. 
Below the drop-front writing flap are two small drawers and three 
large block-front drawers with original brasses. The frame, feet and 
mouldings of this fine old secretaire are all gilded. $3000.00 

Height over all, & feet; width, 3 feet, 10 inches; depth, l foot, 3 inches. 

4084— Venetian Eighteenth Century Bureau-Secretaire 

Cream ground with cut-out and applied decoration. All the mould¬ 
ings are gilded. There are two solid doors on the upper part; two 
long narrow drawers above the drop front and three drawers below. 
The interior of desk and drawers painted pale blue. $850.00 

Height over all, 7 feet, 6 inches; width, 3 feet, 11 inches; depth, 2 feet. 


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4085 — Two Original Framed Sketches by Guardi 

One of them of the Masques at the foot of the old Campanile. $150.00 pr 

Height, 1 foot, 10| inches 

NOTE: FRANCESCO GUARDI (1712-1793) was a pupil of Canaletto. With great 
intelligence, daring and grace, he painted the Venice of his day. 

















ST AM PE DEL SETTECENTO, COLO RATE E NON 
COLO RATE 

RICAVATE DA QUADRI ORIGINALI 

DI PIETRO LONGHI, PIAZZETTA, MAGGIOTTO, CANALETTO, 
CACIMBALLE, MAINOTO, TIEPOLO, ED AL. 


18th CENTURY PRINTS, COLORED AND UNCOLORED 
AFTER ORIGINALS BY THE VENETIAN PAINTERS 

PIETRO LONGHI, PIAZZETTA, MAGGIOTTO, CANALETTO, 
CACIMBALLE, MAINOTA, TIEPOLO, AND OTHERS 



STAMPE DEL SETTECENTO 


4086 —Set of Eight Colored Prints After Longhi 

With verses below, in narrow gilt frames. Signed “Pietro Longhi 
Pinxit: Gutwein sculp.” Date about 1750. $600.00 set of eight. 

Size of frame, 1 foot, 8 inches; width, 1 foot, 4| inches. 

NOTE: PIETRO LONGHI—1702-1762, the Venetian painter who was the chroni¬ 
cler of the intimate daily life of the fashionable and frivolous society of his day. 


4087— Five Black and W t hite Prints After Piazzetta 

Portraits, engraved by Cattini & Haid. $25.00 each. 

Height, 1 foot, 9 inches; width, 1 foot, 4| inches. 

NOTE: PIAZZETTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, born in Venice in 1683, died in 
1785. His work is notable for chiaroscuro effects. 

4088— Six Prints After Teodoro Viero 

Subjects Venetian costumes; red and gold Venetian frames. 

$25.00 each. 

4089— Three Prints After Teodoro Viero 

Subjects Venetian costumes; brown and gilt frames. $25.00 each. 

4090— Two Engravings After Giovanni Domenico Ferretti 

In red Venetian frames. $25.00 each. 

Height, l/oo<, 9| inches; width, 1 foot, 5\ inches. 

4091— Four Crayon Sketches of Heads 

Mounted on gray paper, white margin. Red and gold Venetian frames. 
Height, 2 feet; vndth, 1 foot, 6 inches. $25.00 each. 

4092— Four Prints After Pietro Longhi 

Engraved by Gutwein, framed in green painted Venetian frames with 
decorations of small flowers. $300.00 set of four. 

Height, 2 feet; width, 1 foot, 6 J inches. 

4093— I Burattini —The Marionettes 

Print from painting by Maggiotto $25.00 

4094 — Six Prints After Longhi 

In red and green Venetian frames. $500.00 set of six. 

Height, 1 foot, 10 inches; width, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4095— Eight Prints of Views of Venice, after Canaletto 

Height, 2 feet, 1 inch; width, 1 foot, 7§ inches. $350.00 set of eight. 

NOTE: ANTONIO DA CANALE, called CANALETTO—1697-1768. The son of 
a theatrical scene painter of Venice, he followed his father’s calling for some time. In 
1719 he went to Rome where he painted ancient ruins. Returning to Venice, he de¬ 
voted all his talent to painting views of his native city and has faithfully transmitted to 
us the Venice of his day. 


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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRINTS 


4096— Six Prints After Cacimballe $350.00 set of six. 

Height, 2 feet, 5 inches; width, 1 foot, 10§ inches. 

4097 — Twelve Old Venetian Historical Prints 

On rollers; colored in green. $150.00 set of twelve. 

Height, 2 feet, 4 inches; width, l foot, 9 inches. 

4098 — Four Prints After Longhi 

In walnut and gilt frames. $200.00 set of four. 

4099— Six Colored Venetian Prints, Framed 

Representing triumphal cars that formed part of a festal procession 
given in Venice in 1782 in honor of the Russian Prince Petrowitz and 
his princess. $150.00 set of six. 

4100 — Five Prints in Colors After Maggiotto; Walnut Frames 

Height, 1 foot, 4| inches; width, 1 foot, lj inches. $350.00 set of five. 

4101 — Five Venetian Hand-Colored Prints After Tiepolo 

Height, 1 foot, 2 inches; width, 1 foot, 5 inches. $300.00 set of five. 

4102 — Black and White Print, After Pietro Longhi $50.00 

Height, 1 foot, 8 inches; width, 2 feet, 1 inch. 


4103 —Pair of Black and White Prints, After Maggiotto 


Height, 1 foot, 4§ inches; width, 1 foot, 8 inches. $100.00 pair. 

4104 — Four Colored Prints After Mainoto 

Framed together in large green painted Venetian frame. $200.00 

Height, 2 feet, 11 inches; width, 3 feet, 6 inches. 

4105— Two Small Colored Prints in Black Frames 

Venetian costumes $30.00 

Height, inches; width, inches. 

4106— Two Framed Colored Prints After Mainoto $50.00 pair. 

4107— Two Framed Prints; Heads by Piazzetta $50.00 pair. 

4108 — Colored Print, Portrait of Goldoni $20.00 


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QUADRI DIPINTI SUL VETRO 


QZJADRI DIPINTI SUL VETRO 
PAINTINGS ON GLASS 

4109— Festa Del Redentore 

Glass Painting, Feast of the Saviour; old gilt and lacquered Venetian 
frame. (Glass cracked). $50.00 

Height, 2 feet, 1 inch; width, 2 feet, 9 inches. 

4110— Canal Grande, Da Canaletto 

Glass Painting, “The Grand Canal of Venice;” showing the Doges 
Palace on a fete day; after Canaletto. $75.00 

Height, 2 feet, 1 inch; width, 2 feet, 11 inches. 


4111— Festa Invernale—A Winter Fete 

Glass painting after original in Museo Civico Correr. View of the 
frozen canal between Venice and Mestre in 1728. (Glass cracked). 
Height, 1 foot, 5 inches; width, 2 feet, 8 inches. $50.00 

4112— Quattro Vedute Veneziane—Set of Four Glass Paintings 

Old views of Venice. $300.00 set of four. 

Height, 1 foot, 3 inches; width, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4113— Due Paesaggi 

Pair of landscapes painted on glass. $50.00 pair. 

Height, 1 foot; width, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4114— Gruppo di Sette Dipinti; Arti e Mestieri Veneziani 

Set of seven glass paintings “The Arts and Crafts of Venice,” after 
old prints; framed in green and gold. $250.00 set of seven. 

Height, 1 foot, 4 inches; width, 1 foot, 2 inches. 


4115— Gruppo di Quattro Grandi Dipinti Sul Vetro, da Longhi 

Set of four large glass paintings after originals by Longhi, walnut and 
gilt frames, one glass cracked. $400.00 set of four. 

Height, 1 foot, 9 inches; width, 2 feet, 3§ inches. 


4116—I Galanti—“The Gallants” 
Pair of glass paintings. 

Height, 11 inches; width, 8§ inches. 


4117—Due Dipinti Sul Vetro 
Pair of glass paintings. 

Height, 13| inches; width, 10§ inches. 

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$75.00 pair. 


$60.00 pair. 


PAINTINGS ON GLASS 


4118— Festa in Campagna 

Pair of glass paintings “A Country F6te.” 

Height, 1 foot, 83 inches; width, 2 feet. 

$100.00 pair. 

4119— Due Dipinti Classici Sul Vetro 

Pair of glass paintings; classical subjects. 

Height, 1 foot, 4j inches; width, 1 foot, 63 inches. 

$50.00 pair. 

4120— Due Dipinti Sul Vetro, Chinesi 

Pair of Chinoiserie glass paintings. 

Height, 11 inches; width, 83 inches. 

$40.00 pair. 

4121— Gruppo di tre Dipinti Sul Vetro: Idilli 



Group of three glass paintings: B “Idylls.” $45.00 set of three. 

Height, 1 foot, 1 inch; width, 10 inches. 


4122— San Luigi E Sant’ Antonio 

Pair of glass paintings, St. Louis and St. Anthony. 
Height, 1 foot; width, 10 inches. 

$30.00 pair. 

4123— Due Ritratti Di Donne 

Pair of glass paintings, portraits of women. 

Height, 1 foot, 7 inches; width, 1 foot, 3 inches. 

$50.00 pair. 

4124— Mont St. Michel 

Glass painting; “Mont St. Michel.” 

Height, 1 foot, 3 inch; width, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

$25.00 

4125— Donna Con Cappello Nero 

Glass painting, woman in a black hat. 

Height, 1 foot, 3 inch; width, IO3 inches. 

$20.00 

4126— Interiore 

Glass painting, an interior. 

Height, 1 foot, 8 inches; width, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

$30.00 

4127—Due Dipinti Sul Vetro: La Sacra Famiglia 

Pair of glass paintings; the Holy Family. 

Height, 9| inches; width, 9 inches. 

$50.00 pair. 

4128— Ritratto Della Principessa De Lamballe 

Glass painting, portrait of Princesse de Lamballe. 
Height, 11 inches; width, 9 inches. 

$20.00 

4129—Madonna 

Glass painting, Madonna. 

Height, 2 feet, 5 inches; width, 1 foot, 10§ inches. 

$25.00 


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QUADRI DIPINTI SUL VETRO 


4130— Le Maschere, da Guardi 

Pair of glass paintings, “Masks,” after Guardi, walnut and gilt frames. 
Height, 1 foot, 9 inches; width, 2 feet, inches. $450.00 pair. 

4131— Gruppo di Quattro Dipinti Sul Vetro: Nobili Veneziani 

Four glass paintings of Venetian nobles. $200.00 set of four. 

Height, 11§ inches; vndth, 9 inches. 

4132— La Cucitrice 

Glass painting. “A Woman Sewing.” $85.00 

Height, 1 foot, 6§ inches; width, 1 foot, 3 inches. 

4133— Bucintoro 

Glass painting of the Bucentaur, the state galley of the Doge of Venice 
on which every year on Ascension Day, up to 1789, he sailed out into 
the Adriatic to cast in a ring and perform the mystical ceremony of 
w r edding Venice to the sea. 

The name means a “golden bark” and some of the Bucentaurs were 
plated with scales of gold. The last and most beautiful of these was 
destroyed by Napoleon’s army in 1798 for the sake of its golden decora¬ 
tions. 

This glass painting with traces of red and gold is set in an old Venetian 
black and gold carved frame. $200.00 

Height, 3 feet, 3 inches; width, 3 feet, 1 inch. 


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MOBILI VENEZIANI DI NOCE DEL SETTECENTO 


18 th CENTURY VENETIAN WALNUT FURNITURE 


MOBILI VENEZIANI Dl NOCE 


TAVOLE VENEZIANE Dl NOCE DEL SETTECENTO 

isth century Walnut Venetian tables 


4134— Inlaid Walnut Folding Table 

With pivot top, style Louis XVI, carved moulding on apron and top, 
reeded legs. $150.00 

Height, 2 feet, 5 inches; length of toy, 2 feet, 7 inches; width closed, 1 foot, 4 inches; 
opened, 2 feet, 8 inches. 

4135— Louis XV Walnut Writing Table 

With one large and two small drawers, original bronzes, carved apron. 

$125.00 

Height, 2 feet, 5| inches; length of top, 2 feet, 9§ inches; width of top, 1 foot, 9§ inches. 

4136— Venetian Louis XVI Walnut Inlaid Card Table 

With folding top; medallion of a ship on top. $150.00 

Height, 2 feet, 6^ inches; length of top, closed, 2 feet, 8§ inches by l foot, 4 inches. 

4137— Venetian Louis XV Card Table 

Of radica (walnut root) with shaped folding top and five carved legs. 
There is a drawer for cards. $150.00 

Height, 2 feet, 4 i inches; length of top closed, 2 feet, 2\ inches by l foot, 4 inches. 

4138— Venetian Louis XV Walnut Card Table 

With a folding top inlaid for checkers and veneered. $125.00 

Height, 2 feet, 5% inches; length of top, 2 feet, 7 inches; width, 1 foot, 3| inches. 

4139— Fine Large Venetian Louis XV Radica (Walnut Root) Center 
Table 

The top is simply inlaid. The corners are rounded. Two drawers. 

$900.00 

Height, 2 feet, 6§ inches; length of top, 7 feet, 3§ inches; width, 3 feet, 7 inches. 


4140— Venetian Louis XIV Radica (Walnut Root) Table 

With one drawer. $250.00 

Height, 3 feet, 7 inches; length, 4 feet, 3 inches; width of top, 2 feet, 3 inches. 


4141— Venetian Walnut Louis XV Center Table 

The top inlaid with large scroll acanthus leaves. Two drawers; carved 
cross stretcher with urn, twisted legs. $300.00 

Height, 2 feet, 8 inches; length of top, 5 feet, 4| inches; width of top, 2 feet, 6 inches. 

4142— Venetian 18 th Century Walnut Table 

With oval cut-out top; cross stretcher. $175.00 

Height, 2 feet, 4 inches; length of top, 4 feet, 4 inches; width of top, 2 feet, 4 inches. 


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VENETIAN WALNUT FURNITURE 


4143— ^ enetian Round Folding Top Walnut Table with Carved Feet 

Height, 2 feet, 4 inches; diameter open, 2 feet, 9 inches. $150.00 

4144— Venetian Rectangular Walnut Table 

With folding top and one drawer. $100.00 

Height, 2 feet, 6 inches; length of top, closed, 2 feet, 5 inches; width, I fool, 2 inches. 


4145— Venetian Louis XV Oval Walnut Table 

Height, 2 feet, 65 inches; length, 5 feet, 3 inches; width, 3 feet, 5 inches. 


$150.00 


CONSILIDI Dl NOCE DEL SETTECENTO 
18 th CENTURY WALNUT CONSOLE TABLES 

4146— Carved Venetian Louis XV Walnut Gueridon with Tripod 

Stand $100.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 inches; depth, 1 foot. 

4147— Pair of Venetian Louis XV Walnut Consoles 

With inset African marble tops. The apron is formed of carved wood, 
twisted or braided in loops. $500.00 the pair. 

Height, it feet, 10 inches; length of top, 4 feet, 2 inches; depth, 2 feet, 4 inches. 

4148 — Pair of Venetian Louis XV Walnut Console Tables 

With carved aprons braided in loops. Bardiglio green-gray marble 
tops. $500.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 11 inches; length of top, 4 feet, 6 inches; depth, 2 feet, 3 inches. 

4149— Small Venetian Louis XV Radica (Walnut Root) Console Table 

Height, 2 feet, 7 inches; length of top, 3 feet, 1 inch; depth, 1 foot, 9 inches. $125.00 

4150 — Four Small Carved Venetian Louis XVI Gueridons with Tripod 

Stands $80.00 the pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 7 inches; width, 1 foot, 4 inches. 


4151— Pair of Venetian Louis XIV Walnut Console Tables 
With serpentine fronts and sides; one drawer in each. 

$350.00 the pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 7| inches; length of top, 4 feet, 2 inches; depth, 2 feet. 


4152— Pair of Small Venetian Louis XV Walnut Gueridons with Tri¬ 
pod Feet $100.00 the pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 9§ inches. 


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MOBILI VENEZIANI Dl NOCE 


4153— Pair of Venetian 18th Century Console Tables 

With carved legs and crossed stretcher and green marbleized tops. The 
bases are varnished to look like walnut. $200.00 pair. 

Height, St feet, 7 inches; length of top, 3 feet, 11 inches; depth of top, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4154— Pair of Venetian 18th Century Half-round Walnut Console 
Tables 

With stretchers and three turned legs, carved apron. $200.00 

Height, ifeet, 3 inches; length of top, 5 feet, 4 inches; depth, 1 foot, 10 inches. 

4155— Two Small Venetian Louis XV Walnut Console Tables 

$150.00 pair 

Height, 2 feet, 7\ inches; length of top, 3 feet, 1 inch; depth, 1 foot, 5 inches. 


POLTRONE Dl NOCE DEL SETTECENTO 
WALNUT ARMCHAIRS OF THE 18 th CENTURY 

4156— Venetian Louis XV Walnut Armchair 

With curved stretcher; covered with old stamped leather. Separate 
cushion. $300.00 

Height of hack, 3 feet, 4 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4157— Venetian Louis XV Walnut Armchair 

With back in twisted loops. $150.00 

Height of hack, St feet, Ilf inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. 

4158— Pair of Walnut Armchairs with Splat Backs $300.00 the pair. 

Height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches; height of back, 1 foot, 2 inches. 

4159— Venetian Louis XV Walnut Armchair 

Covered with green damask, separate cushion. $200.00 

Height of hack, St feet, 11 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4160— Set of Eight Walnut Venetian Louis XV Chairs 

Six armchairs with looped backs and carved shell and two side chairs to 
match. The seats are covered with old green brocade. 

$850.00 set of eight. 

Height of back, 3 feet, St inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4161— Pair of Venetian Walnut Armchairs with Splat Backs 

Height of hack, St feet, 11 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. $150.00 pair. 

4162— Six Venetian Louis XV Walnut Armchairs 

The seats and backs and loose cushions covered with old black leather. 

$400.00 set of six. 

Height of hack, St feet, 11 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6f inches. 


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VENETIAN WALNUT FURNITURE 


4163— Venetian Louis XV Walnut Armchair 

The legs, apron and arms lightly carved; covered with old red stuff. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 1 inch; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. $100.00 

4164— Venetian Louis XV Walnut Pozzetto or Bergere 

Covered w ith old green brocatelle. $150.00 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4165— Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Armchairs and Two Side Chairs 
Of walnut with splat backs, the seats covered with green brocade. 

$400.00 set of six. 

Height of back, 2 feet, 11 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 


4166—Pair of Venetian Louis XV Walnut Armchairs 

With looped backs and rush seats. $200.00 pair. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 1 inch; height of seat, 1 foot, 3 inches. 


4167— Venetian Louis XV Armchair 

Carved walnut frames; the back and arms upholstered in old green 
damask. $125.00 

Height of back, 3 feet, 9 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4| inches. 

4168— 18th Century Walnut Armchair 

With reeded legs; covered with old green striped moire. $200.00 

Height of back, 3 feet; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. 


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MOBILI VENEZIANI Dl NOCE 


SEDIE Dl NOCE DEL SETTECENTO 


18 th CENTURY WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS 

4169— Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Walnut Side Chairs 
With carved frames; seats and backs covered with old leather. 

$600.00 set of four. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 5 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 8 inches. 

4170— Pair of Walnut Side Chairs 

With a vase-shaped motif in the splat back. Seats covered with old 
green striped damask. $150.00 pair 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10§ inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 5 inches. 


4171— Pair of Italian Walnut Side Chairs 
With splat backs; old red damask seats. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 1 inch; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 


$150.00 pair. 


4172 —Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Walnut Side Chairs 

Very graceful and delicate, with looped backs; seats in old green damask. 
Height, 3 feet; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. $350.00 set of four. 


4173— Carved Venetian Louis XV Walnut Side Chair 
Back and seat carved, carved feet. 

Height of back, 2 feet, 9 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 4§ inches. 


$80.00 


4174— Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Side Chairs 
With stretchers, green damask seats. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 5 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 


$350.00 set of four. 


4175— Set of Thirteen Venetian Louis XV Walnut Side Chairs 
With rush seats and stretchers, looped splat back, carved shell. 

$500.00 set of thirteen. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 8 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 


4176— Pair of Venetian Walnut Side Chairs 

Height of back, 3 feet; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 


$150.00 pair. 


4177—Italian Walnut 18th Century Side Chair 

With splat back in the shape of a vase. Seat covered with old green 
striped moire. $125.00 

Height of back, 2 feet, 11 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 5| inches. 


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DIVANI DI NOCE DEL SETTECENTO 
18 th CENTURY WALNUT SOFAS 

4178— Large Carved Louis XV Walnut Canape with Eight Legs $400.00 

Height of back, 3 feet, 5 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches; length, Gfeet, 8 inches. 

4179— Venetian Louis XV Carved Walnut Sofa 

With seat, back and roll ends covered with old leather, eight legs; frame 
heavily carved. $500.00 

Height of back, 3 feet, 7 inches; length, 7 feet, 8 inches; height of seat, l foot, 8 inches. 

4180 1 Four Small Venetian Louis XV Walnut Canapes 

4181 J Six legged with carved and twisted loop back and aprons. $200.00 each. 

Height of back, 3 feet; length, 4 feet, 6 inches; height of seat, l foot, 6 inches. 

4182— Two Large Venetian Louis XV Walnut Canapes 

Eight legs, with carved back and apron in twisted loops. $600.00 each. 

Height of back, 3 feet; length, Gfeet, 9 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4183— Large Carved Walnut Venetian Louis XV Sofa 

With roll ends covered with old leather. $300.00 

Height of back, 3 feet, 7 inches; length over all, 8 feet, 1 inch; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 
inches. 

4184— Pair of Long Eight-Legged Venetian Louis XV Sofas 

Of walnut with three separate looped medallion backs; covered with old 
green brocade. $850.00 pair. 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10 inches; length, 8 feet, 6 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4185— Pair of Venetian Louis XV Walnut Sofas 

With eight legs, no covering. $400.00 pair. 

Length, 6 feet, 10 inches. 

4186 — Carved Venetian Louis XV Walnut Canape with Six Legs 

$350.00. 

Height of back, 2 feet, 10 inches; length, 6 feet, 8 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 6 inches. 


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MOBILI VENEZIANI Dl NOCE 


CANTONIERE Dl NOCE DEL SETTECENTO 
18 th CENTURY WALNUT CORNER CUPBOARDS 

4187— Large Half-round Venetian Corner Cupboard with Inlaid Line 

OF ClTRONNIER $250.00 

Height, 7 feet, 5 inches; width, 2 feet, 10 inches. 

4188— Walnut Root ( Radica ) Bureau Secretaire 

Two mirror doors in the upper part and an engraved mirror medallion 
in the cornice; two candle slides, drop-front writing flap; and three block 
front drawers. $450.00 

Height, 8 feet, 4 inches; length, 3 feet, 5§ inches; width, 2 feet, 1 inch. 


SPINETTE DEL SETTECENTO 
18 th CENTURY SPINETS 

4189— Two Small and Delicate Venetian Louis XVI Walnut Spinets 

$75.00 

One, 2 feet, 4 inches high; 3 feet, 4 inches, length of top by 1 foot, 3 J inches. 

$75.00 

Height of other spinet, 2 feet, 6| inches; length of top, 3 feet, 7 J inches by lfoot, 5 inches. 

4190— Old Spinet Covered with Pale Green Venetian Brocade $600.00 

Height, 2 feet, 9 inches; length, 7 feet, 8 inches; width, 3 feet. 

4191— Venetian Painted Leggio or Music Rack $150.00 

Length, 3 feet. 

4192— Venetian 18th Century Spinet 

Covered with old blue damask and edged with fringe. $250.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 inches; length, 7 feet, 2 inches; width, % feet, 10 inches. 


QUADRI VENEZIANI DECORATIVI—RITRATTI , 
PAESAGGI, ED AL. 

DECORATIVE PAINTINGS, PORTRAITS, 
LANDSCAPES, ETC. 


QUADRI DECORATI VI 


4193— Large 18th Century Portrait Group 

Of a gentleman seated at a desk, wearing a blue coat and a red decoration. By him 
stands a lady in a white Empire gown holding a naked child in her arms while another 
clings to her skirts. 

Height, 7 feet, 8 inches; width, 5 feet, 1 inch. $600.00 

4194— Four Tempera Decorative Portraits in Old Walnut and Gilt 

Frames $300.00 set of four. 

Height, 1 foot, 10^ inches; width, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4195— Two Very Interesting 17th Century, Long and Narrow Decora¬ 
tive Paintings 

Of the meeting of a Venetian noble with the Sultan in Constantinople. 
Tents of gold, prancing horses, and banners. $800.00 pair. 

Height, 3 feet, 4 inches; width, 12 feet. 

4196— Four Decorative Japanese Panels 

Painted on rice paper and applied on canvas: all in greyish white tones. 
Height, 5 feet, 4 inches each; icidth, 3 feet, 1 inch each. $1200.00 set of four. 

4197— Four Paintings by Alessandro Longhi 

Venetian scenes of interiors and ballrooms; in carved and gilded frames. 

$4000.00 set of four. 

Height of each, 3 feet, 7 inches; length of each, 4 feet, 9 inches. 

LONGHI, ALESSANDRO. The son of Pietro, the painter. He was born in Venice 
in 1726; died in 1813 and was an engraver by trade. He also painted pictures in the 
style of his father.' Alessandro Longhi published during his lifetime a book on the 
most noted painters of his day. 

4198— Painting, “La Civetta” 

(An Italian word which means both screech owl and coquette). The birds in this 
picture all have human faces. The lady owl on a perch is the center of attraction for 
all the other birds, her suitors, and is held on a string by an old woman who is ready to 
pull her back into the cage when she has trapped her game. 

This curious and diverting painting is in a green and gold Venetian frame. 

Height, I^feet, | inches; width, 6 feet, 3\ inches. $500.00 

4199— Old Picture, Family Group, in Carved Gilt Frame 

Height, 3 feet, S inches; width, 3 feet, 2 inches. $200.00 

4200— Decorative Venetian Painting 

Of a woman in Harlequin dress, receiving a letter from the hand of a little messenger, 
while a cupid hovers over her head. Old gilt frame. 

Height, 5 feet; width, 3 feet, 11 inches. $300.00 

4201— Venetian Painting, the Portrait of an 18th Century Child in a 

Blue Frock, Pulling Roses $100.00 

Height, 3 feet, 7 inches; width, 2 feet, 8 inches. 

4202— Small Painting of Venetian Masks in Carved and Painted 

Yellow Venetian Frame $50.00 

Height, 1 foot, 9 inches; width, 1 foot, 4§ inches. 


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4193—Large 18th Century Portrait Group 

Of a gentleman seated at a desk in a blue coat and wearing a red decoration. By him 
stands a lady in a white Empire gown holding a naked child in her arms while another 
clings to her skirts. 

Height, 7 feel, 8 inches; width, 5 feet, 1 inch. 


$600.00 



















































DECORATIVE PAINTINGS 


4000— Portrait of Venetian Lady by Pietro Longhi 

Her dress of orange-colored velvet is covered with pearls and silver galon. She wears 
a charmingly painted corsage bouquet and has a blue mantle thrown around her 
shoulders. Seated at a little table she is pouring herself a cup of chocolate. The old 
frame is carved and gilded. 

Height, 3 feel, 9 inches; width, 3 feet. $800.00 

4203— A Large Portrait Group of the Marchesa Albergato and Her 
Husband 

Seated at a spinet. A charming picture for a Music Room. The frame 
is a very interesting old Venetian carved and painted one. $1000.00 
Height, 7 feet, 11 inches; width, 6 feet, \ inch. 

4204— A Charming Portrait of a Venetian Senator and His Little Son 

The man in a red robe and wig, the boy wearing a gray Louis XV coat with gold but¬ 
tons and carrying a cocked hat under his arm. 

Height, 5 feet, 8 inches; width, 4 feet, 5 inches. $300.00 

4205— Two Portraits of Venetian Senators 

Wearing their robes of office; old Venetian lacquer frames surrounded 
by cut-out border of painted leaves. $800.00 pair. 

Height, each, 5 feet, 6 inches; width, each, 4 feet, 3 inches. 

4206— Pastel Portrait of a Young Girl 

In a large leghorn hat, wearing a blue bodice. $250.00 

Height, 2 feet, 5| inches; width, 2 feet. 

4207— Venetian Portrait of Mother and Daughter 

Nobles in Venetian eighteenth century costumes with lace head-dresses, 
veils and powdered hair. $500.00 

Height, 5 feet, 8| inches; width, & feet, 9? inches. 

4208— Four Decorative Paintings of Venice in the Style of Canaletto 

Height, 1 foot, 9j inches; width, 2 feet, 4j inches. $300.00 set of four. 

4209— Two Paintings, Venice Interiors $150.00 the pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 4§ inches; width, 1 foot, 9§ inches. 

4210— Paintings of Two Little Venetian Girls 

One sitting on the floor with a bird on her finger. $100.00 

Height, 3 feet, 2§ inches; width, 2 feet, 8 inches. 

4211— A Market Painting, with Dog and Vegetables $100.00 

Height, 3 feet, 6 inches; width, 5 feet. 

4212— Three Landscapes, School of Zuccarelli 
Framed in painted yellow and green Venetian frames. 

Height, 3 feet, 5 inches; width, 4 feet, 7 inches. $450.00 set of three. 

NOTE: ZUCCARELLI— 1702-1788. One of the Italian artists who worked in 
England during the eighteenth century and to some extent influenced the English style. 


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QUADRI DECORATI VI 


4213— Five Painted Portraits of Gondoliers 

Among them a woman; the winners of the Regatta in different years of 
1700 $500.00 set of five. 

4214— Portrait of a Servant 

“The Lackey who combs the dogs.” Two dogs are jumping up on him 
and he holds a wide-toothed comb in his hand. $75.00 

Height, 3 feet, 3 inches; width, 2 feet, 7 inches. 

4215— Two Decorative Paintings, Giuochi di Forza 

“Feats of Strength,” showing the men at Carnival time building pyra¬ 
mids on each other’s shoulders on the public squares of Venice. One 
picture is dated 1773, and one 1810. $200.00 pair. 


SALA DI ZAIS 

CINQUE GRANDI PAESAGGI DEL PITTORE VENEZIANO 
ZAIS: CORNICI VENEZIANI ORIGINALI 

FIVE IMPORTANT PAINTINGS BY THE VENETIAN 
PAINTER ZAIS 


4216—These panels are Italian landscapes and are more interesting because 
they still have their old Venetian frames painted yellow and crossed 
with blue and rose ribbons. $6500.00 set. 

The largest panel — Height, 7 feet, 1 inch; length, 10 feet, 8 inches. Four other panels — 
Height, 5 feet, 3 inches; length, 5 feet, 5 inches. 

NOTE: ZAIS, GIUSEPPE, was born in Venice and studied under Zuccarelli while 
he lived in this city. He painted landscapes and battle scenes with notable success. 
He died at an advanced age in 1784. The Accademia of Venice contains one of his 
pictures. 


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DECORATIVE PAINTINGS 


DECORAZIONE VENEZIANA: TRE PANNELLI 
VENEZIANI BELLAMENTE DECORATI IN 
STILE CHINESE 

A VENETIAN DECORATION FOR A SALON, CONSISTING 
OF THREE LARGE DOUBLE PANELS 
DONE IN CHINESE STYLE 

4217—Each panel contains six small panels of still life and flowers set in sep¬ 
arate mouldings. The frames are covered with old green Italian paper. 
The painted panels are done on paper in the brilliant colors of lacquer 
applied on canvas, and varnished. $1650.00 set of three. 

Height of each double panel, 6 feet, 4 inches; width, 5 feet, 7 inches. 


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QUADRI DECORATIVI 


SALA DI MAGGIOTTO 

DECORAZIONE MURALE PER SALA. TRE GRANDI PANNELLI 
E QUATTRO SOPRA-PORTE DI STUCCO CON NEL CENTRO 
MEDAGLIONI DIPINTI SU TELA ; DA MAGGIOTTO 

DECORATION FOR A SALON OF THREE LARGE PANELS AND 
FOUR OVERDOORS BY THE VENETIAN PAINTER MAGGIOTTO 

4218—The panels are of stucco done in graceful festoons and decorations. 
Painted medallions with portraits are in the center of each panel and 
smaller medallions of fruit and flowers are at the sides. $3000.00 set. 
Size of three large panels — Height, 5 feet, 6 inches each; width, 6 feet, 4 inches each. 
Size of over-doors — Height, 2 feet, 3 inches each; width, 4 feet, 9 inches each. 

NOTE: MAGGIOTTO, DOMENICO, a pupil or at least an imitator of Piazzetta; 
born in Venice in 1720. The few works that he has left in the country show the good 
influence exercised by Ricci on his art. He died in Venice in 1794. 


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4219—Panelled 17th Century Walnut Armadio or Clothes Press 

With bronze head as door pull. At the top is a heavy cornice. This 
armadio has two original feet with angels’ heads. $500.00 

Height of cornice, 7 feet, 4 inches; width, 4 feet 10 inches; depth, 1 foot, 4 inches. 




















































MOBIL! VENEZIANI DEL SEICENTO 


17th CENTURY VENETIAN FURNITURE 


MOBILI DEL SEICENTO 


4220— Pair of Mezze Tavole Half-round 17th Century Walnut Tables 
With vase and bulb-shaped legs and round stretcher, carved apron. 

$250.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 7§ inches; length of top, 4 feet, 3 inches; diameter, 2 feet, 1 inch. 

4221— Large Walnut 17th Century Tavola di Centro (Library Table) 
With three drawers; two-piece top; vase-shaped legs; plain stretcher. 

$450.00 

Height, ifeet, 10 inches; length of top, 5 feet, 8 inches; width, 2 feet, 11 inches. 

4222— Heavily Carved 17th Century Walnut Cassettone (Chest of 
Drawers) 

With four drawers. The front is carved with cupids riding on dolphins, 
and the supporting feet are carved with angels’ heads. $650.00 

Height, 3 feet, 8 inches; length of top, 4 feet, 11 inches; depth, ifeet, 1 inch. 

4219—Panelled 17th Century Walnut Armadio or Clothes Press 

With bronze head as door pull. At the top is a heavy cornice. This 
armadio has two original feet with angels’ heads. $500.00 

Height of cornice, 7 feet, 4 inches; width, ifeet, 10 inches; depth, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4223— About Thirty Metres of Old Red Brocatelle $250.00 lot 

4224— Four Large Venetian 17th Century Armchairs 

The frames and stretchers lacquered to look like tortoise shell. Backs 
and seats are covered with old red brocade. $1200.00 set of four. 

Height of back, ifeet; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4225— Large 17th Century Walnut Dining Table 

The top of walnut root inlaid, four turned legs. $450.00 

Height, ifeet, 7\ inches; length of top, 7 feet, 6| inches; width of top, 3 feet, 4| inches. 

4226— 17th Century Walnut Cassone 

With two panelled doors simulating drawers, ball feet. $250.00 

Height, 3 feet, 6 inches; length of top, ifeet, 4 inches; depth, 1 foot, 9 inches. 

4227— Carved Walnut 17th Century Prie Dieu 

With drawer and cupboard; carved posts. $200.00 

Height, 3 feet, 1 inch; length, 2 feet, 3 inches. 

4228— Two Walnut 17th Century Armchairs 

Carved with oblong medallions on backs and stretchers. 

$250.00 the pair. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 11 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 9 inches. 

4229— 17th Century Walnut Carved Bed 

With high carved top and low foot posts; carved feet and side rails 

$500.00 

Height of headboard, 5 feet, 9 inches; length of bed, 6 feet, 5 inches; width of bed, ifeet 
11 inches; height of footposts, ifeet, 9 inches. 


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A photograph of the Priest’s room with its Seventeenth Century furniture taken 

in the Palazzo Carminati 

Bed 4229 Chairs 4228 Prie dieu 4227 








A photograph taken in the Palazzo Carminati of the kitchen on the top floor 
Two kitchen cupboards 4237 Tuscan table 4238 Bolognese flour bin 423G 













SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FURNITURE 


4230— Large Walnut 17th Century Table 

With solid pedestal, inlaid in lines of light wood. $500.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 inches; length of top, 5 feet, 7 inches; width of top, 2 feet, 9 inches. 


4231— Large 17th Century Armchair 

With heavily carved stretcher. Seat and back covered with red 
damask. $200.00 

Height of back, 4 feet, 8 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 9 inches. 

4232— Pair of Large 17th Century Side Chairs 

With carved oblong medallions. $250.00 the pair. 

Height of back, 4 feet, 5 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 8 inches. 


4233— Three Small 17th Century Chairs 

With carved backs and stretchers. $200.00 the set. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 8 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 8 inches. 


4234— Pair of Italian 17th Century Inlaid Chairs 

With solid wood backs of walnut root, inlaid. $100.00 the pair. 

Height of back, 3 feet, 4 inches; height of seat, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4235— 17th Century Panelled Chest 

With cupboard and two shelves, one drawer below; claw feet. $150.00 

Height, 3 feet, 3 inches; length of top, 2 feet, 3j inches; depth, 1 foot, 5§ inches. 

4236— 17th Century Madia Bolognese 

Or flour bin with decorations of brass rosettes. $300.00 

Height, 3 feet, 10 inches; length, 5 feet, 5 inches; depth, 2 feet, 1 inch. 

4237— Two Kitchen Cupboards, 17th Century with Shelves 

Height over all, 6 feet, 4 inches. $200.00 each. 

4238— Walnut 17th Century Tuscan Table with Plain Stretcher 

Height, 2 feet, 7 inches; length, 6 feet, 8 inches; vndth, 2 feet, 9 inches. $250.00 

4239— Carved 17th Century Walnut Cassone $200.00 

Height, 3 feet; length of top, 4 feet, 9 inches; depth of top, 1 foot, 11 inches. 

4240 — Two 17th Century Carved Walnut Choir Stalls $500.00 pair. 

Height of back, 8 feet; width, 2 feet, 9 inches; depth, 1 foot, 7 inches. 

4241— Fine Panelled Walnut 17th Century Armadio with Four Doors 

Height, 6 feet, 11 inches; width, 1 foot, 11 inches; length, 5 feet, 3 inches. $500.00 

4242— A 17th Century Panelled Walnut Door 

In two pieces with bronze pulls and fine mouldings. $250.00 

Height, 7 feet, 9 inches; width, 2 feet. 


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MOBILI DEL SEICENTO 


■PAN NELLI D1 LEGNO IN T AG LI AT 0 
FINE OLD 17 tii CENTURY WALNUT PANELLING 


4243—For a library or dining room, in the shape of a high wainscoting. The 
panels are formed by mouldings separated by delicate carved Corin¬ 
thian columns, the whole resting on a panelled base. There are fifty- 
four and one-half (54^) running feet of this panelling, 7 feet high. 

In the same room there are 58§ running feet of carved cornice to go at 
the top of ceiling; the space between the cornice and wainscoting having 
been originally filled with old red brocade. The two doorways of the 
room are 7 feet, 10 inches high (extending above the wainscoting) and 
are 4 feet wide. 

The Boiserie consists of ten large panels, four small panels and two 
extra columns. The price is $3000.00 


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SPECCHI VENEZIANJ DEL SETTECENTO 


18 th CENTURY VENETIAN MIRRORS 


SPECCH1 DEL SETTECENTO 


4244—Important Carved and Gilded Venetian 

With original glass in two pieces. 

Height to top of frame, 6 feet; width, 3 feet, 9 inches. 


Louis XV Mirror Frame 
$175.00 


4245— Small Venetian Lacquered Mirror 

With charmingly decorated top. $150.00 

Height, 2 feet; width, 1 foot, 3f inches. 

4246— Pair of Charming Small Mirrors 

In frames of green lacquer, twined with carved and gilded vines. A 
bobeche in the shape of a flower cup is at the foot. $300.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 1 inch; width, 1 foot, 5 inches. 


4247— Carved Venetian Toilet Mirror 

With medallion at top; painted green and gilded. $125.00 

Height, 1 foot, 2j inches; width, 1 foot, 11 inches. 


4248—Set of Six Small Mirrors 

In carved walnut and gilt frames; old glass with engraved medallion at 
the top. $300.00 set of six. 

Height, 2 feet, 4 inches; width, 1 foot. 


4249— Pair of Carved and Gilded Venetian Mirrors 

Of the settecento, old glass. $400.00 pair. 

Height, 3 feet, 9 inches; width, 2 feet, II inches. 

4250— Venetian Louis XV Mirror 

Of walnut and gilt with carved head at foot. $125.00 

Height, 3 feet, 6 inches; width, 1 foot, 10§ inches. 

4251— Set of Six Gilded Venetian Louis XV Mirrors 

With an inner frame held to the edge with small and delicately gilded 
leaves. $900.00 set of six. 

Height, 3 feet, 1 inch; width, 1 foot, 6 inches. 


4252— Walnut and Gilt Venetian Louis XVI Mirror 

With pierced top rail and three carved gilt urns on top. $175.00 

Height, 5 feet, 2 inches; width, 2 feet, 7 inches. 

4253— Mantel Mirror 

In carved Venetian frame, yellow, painted with flowers. $185.00 

Height, 2 feet, 2 j inches; width, 4 feet, 85 inches. 

4254— Four Small Venetian Mirrors 

The frames repainted pale blue and gilt. $150.00 set of four. 

Height, 1 foot, 10 | inches; width, 9 inches. 


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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MIRRORS 


4255— Large Venetian Louis XV Mirror 

In carved and painted frame. The colors are green and yellow with 
touches of red flowers. Two glass candle holders are fastened at the 
foot. The mirror is in two parts. $350.00 

Height, 5 feet, 10 inches; width, 3 feet, 8§ inches. 

4256— Set of Four Venetian Louis XV Mirror Appliques 

In gilt frames with delicately carved crowns. A line of decorative 
engraving on the glass follows the outline of the frames. Two Venetian 
white glass candle-holders in each applique. $800.00 set of four. 

Height, 3 feet, 4 inches; width, 1 foot, 6f inches. 

4257— Large Venetian Regence Gilt Mirror 

A heavily carved frame with glass border and medallions finely incised. 
This is one of the finest mirrors from the Palace. $900.00 

Height, 7 feet, 1 inch; width, 5 feet, 3| inches. 


4258— Pair of Small Venetian Louis XV Mirrors 
In carved and gilded frames, old glass. 

Height, 4 feet; width, 2 feet, 3 inches. 


$450.00 pair. 


4259— Pair of Venetian Regence Mirrors 

In gilt frames, finely carved, with heads at the center of the top. 

Height, 3 feet, I 5 inches; width, 1 foot, 10? inches. $250.00 the pair. 

4260— Set of Four Beautifully Engraved Venetian Mirrors 

Gilt carved frames. $1250.00 set of four. 

Height, 2 feet, 8j inches; width, It feet, 10 inches. 

4261— Venetian Louis XV Mirror 

In painted frame with rope edge; carved top with medallion. The 
color is greenish yellow with decorations in red and green. $ 200.00 

Height, 4 feet, 3 inches; width, 3 feet, 1 inch. 

4262— Gilt Mantel Mirror with Six Carved Urns $300.00 

Height, 3 feet, 6 inches; width, 6 feet, 10 inches. 

4263— Pair of Venetian Louis XV Mirrors 

In walnut and gilt frames, old glass in two parts. $250.00 pair. 

Height, 4 feel, 3 inches; width, 2 feet, 2 inches. 


4264—Pair of Small Venetian Walnut and Gilt Mirrors 

Old glass. $85.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 6 inches; width, 1 fool, 3j inches. 


4265— Venetian Gilt Mirror with Old Glass 
Height, 3 feet, 3 inches; width, 1 foot, 8 inches. 


$90.00 


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SPECCHI DEL SETTECENTO 


4266 — Venetian Mirror in Walnut and Gilt Frame $150.00 

Height, 5 feet, 10 inches; width, 3 feet, 3 inches. 

4267— Small Venetian Louis XV Painted Mirror 

Green with Chinoiserie decorations and flowers, gilt moulding $125.00 

Height, 2 feet, 3| inches; width, 1 foot, 4 inches. 

4268 — Venetian Louis XV Mirror 

In green painted and carved frame; old glass in four sections. $100.00 

Height, 4 feet; width, 2 feet, inches. 

4269— Venetian Louis XV Mantel Mirror 

Painted green with polka dots and flowers. 

Height, 1 foot, 8 inches; width, 4 feet, 11 inches. 

4270— Venetian Mirror 

With red painted frame and gilt moulding. 

Height, 3 feet, 5 inches; width, 2 feet, 3 inches. 

4271 Painted Venetian Louis XV Mirror 

Pale green with tulips and other flowers: elaborately carved, pierced 
and gilded hood and outer frame. $200.00. 

Height, 4ifeet, 7 inches; width, 3 feet, 8 inches. 


$ 100.00 


$80.00 


C AMI NETT I Dl MAE MO, FONT AN E, STATUE, ED AL. 

MANTELPIECES, FOUNTAINS, STATUES AND 
OTHER MARBLES 

4272— Mantel of Red Verona Marble Inlaid with Green of the Alps 

$250.00 

Height, i feet; length of mantel shelf, 4 feet, 10 inches; width of mantel shelf, 11 inches; 
fireplace opening, 3 feet, 3 inches by 3 feet, 10 inches. 


4273— Louis XV Mantel of Old Red Verona Marble $400.00 

Height, 4 feet, 8 inches; length of top, 5 feet, 11 inches; fireplace opening, height, 3 feet, 
4 inches; length, 4 feet, 1 inch. 

4274— Venetian Louts XV Mantel of Old Yellow Verona Marble 

$250.00 

Height, 3 feet, 10 inches; length of top, 4 feet, 7 inches; depth of top, 8 inches; fireplace 
opening, 2 feet, 11 inches by 3 feet, 10| inches. 


4275— Red Verona Marble Fountain on Pedestal $150.00 

Height, 4 feet, 1 inch; diameter of basin, 2 feet, 2 inches. 


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MARBLES 


4276 —Red Verona Marble Fountain with Marble Figure $400.00 

Height, 6 feet, 8 inches; width, l foot, 11 inches; diameter, 2 feet, 1 inch. 


4277— A Fine Gothic Wall Fountain $500.00 

4278 — Renaissance Marble Mantel $500.00 

4279 — Renaissance Marble Mantel $350.00 

4280 — Marble Statuette on Marble Column $150.00 

Height, % feet, 10 inches. 2 feet, 11 inches. 

4281 — Marble Statuette of Boy $100.00 

Height, 1 foot, 10 inches. 

4282— Pair of Marble Dogs $350.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 1 inch. 


4283— Bas Relief Madonna and Child in Marble $200.00 

4284 — Byzantine Pierced Stone Window Frame $300.00 

4285— Byzantine Pierced Stone Window Frame $275.00 

4286 — Byzantine Pierced Stone Window Frame $275.00 


NINNOLI 

BIBELOTS 

4287 J Two Old Lacquered Venetian Trays $50.00 each 

4288 j 

4289 — Small Venetian Paper Banner 

Of the eighteenth century. $20.00 

4290 — Bassano Inkstand 

Three pieces on a tray. $22.50 

4291 — Four Carved and Painted Wooden Figures 

Of Contadini (peasants) on wooden pedestals. $150.00 set of four. 

Height, 1 foot, 8 inches. 

4292 — Four Venetian Lacquer Trays $35.00 and $50.00 ea. 

4293 — Venetian Yellow Lacquered Box 

With shepherd and flowers. $60.00 


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4294— Marble Inkstand, Old Bardiglio $40.00 

4295— Gabbia or Double Story Bird Cage 

In the shape of a house. This cage is on a painted table with an octag¬ 
onal top. Cage and table $250.00 

4296 | Pair of Pink Granite Obelisks 

4297 [ On white marble bases with bronze finials and feet. $200.00 pair. 

4298 Four Small Bronze Cannon 

4299 Models of the eighteenth century. $100.00 the four. 

4300— Table Clock 

With small painted medallion over face. $75.00 

Height, St feet. 

4301— Two Old Carved and Painted Wooden Figures 

Of servitori in red coats, gold sashes and green trousers, one with a tur¬ 
ban holding out trays for cards or lamps. $400.00 the pair. 

Height, 4 feet, 9 inches. 


4302— Old Roman Marble Bust $ 200.00 

Height, St feet. 

4303— Carved and Gilded Louis XVI Wooden Clock 

With two serpents holding the face. Gilded vases at the top and both 
sides of the base. Two birds. $350.00 

Height, 2 feet, 2 inches. 

4304 I A Blue-Painted Wooden Venetian Tray 

4305 [ With five cups and saucers and a coffee pot of the ware known as Vene¬ 

zia; white ground with blue band and green decorations. $150.00 set. 

4306— Large Painted Incised and Gilded Venetian Box 

Decorated inside. $ 100.00 

Length, St feet, 3 inches; depth, 1 foot, 6 inches. 

4307 Two Venetian Carved and Gilded Watch Stands 

4308 One of them is Louis XV and the other Louis XVI. $50.00 each 

4309— Large Gabbia or Bird Cage 

Of wood and wire in the shape of a mansion with a cupola and turrets. 
Cage and stand. $250.00 

Height, 5 feet, 9 inches; on a table base, St feet, 4 inches by 2 feet, 4 inches. 

4310— Venetian Breakfast Tray 

The top covered with applied designs. $150.00 


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BIBELOTS 


4311— Large Astronomical Globe on Walnut Stand 

The globe is surmounted by a carved wooden lion and shield. $350.00 

4312— Painted Red and Blue Venetian Mappa-Mondo 

With astronomical spheres around it. $150.00 


4313—Pair of Small Globes on Stands 


4314 

4315 


Two Large Ship Models 


4316— Painted Venetian Barometer 

Canary yellow, with decorations in blue and red. 
Height, 3 feet, 2 inches. 


$150.00 pair. 
$425.00 each. 


$75.00 


4317 Old Map of Venice $125.00 

4318 | Painted Venetian Louis XV Dressing Table Set 

4319 [ Consisting of standing toilet mirror, two small trays, pair of candlesticks 

and a painted box. All with a red ground and medallions of yellow with 
cut-out applied varnished figures. $350.00 set 


4320— Old Venetian Paper Three-Panel Screen 

With flowers and figures; lined with old yellow and rose brocaded satin. 
Height of each panel, 4 feet, 2 inches; width, l foot, Ilf inches. $200.00 

4321— Large Black Venetian Cotfano $350.00 

Height, 11 inches; length, 2 feet, 3 inches; width, 1 foot, 5 inches. 

4322— Bronze Inkstand 

Supported by three eagles with out-spread wings; cupid on cover. 

$150.00 

4323— Old Red Velvet Coffer 

With six Venetian glass perfume bottles with silver tops. $150.00 

4324— Large Venetian Louis XV Painted Box 

Yellowish green with flowers and figures. $200.00 

4325— Presepio or Creche All in Venetian Glass 

With tiny figures, trees and animals. These are all under a glass case 
with a green and gold Venetian frame. $200.00 

Height, 1 foot, 9 inches; length, 1 foot, 9 inches; depth, 1 foot, 3 inches. 

4326— Venetian Painted Cetra or Painted Case for Spinet $150.00 

Length, 3 feet, 4 inches; depth, 1 foot, 3 inches. 

4327— A Gothic Strong Box of Wood With Iron Bands $200.00 

Height, 1 foot, 10 inches; length, 1 foot; depth, 1 foot, 9 inches. 


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NINNOLI 


4328—Ten Small Carved Walnut Seventeenth Century Boxes 



$75.00 each. 

4330— Terra Cotta Madonna on a Bracket 

$600.00 

4331— Stucco Madonna 

$150.00 

4332— Model of a Three-Masted Schooner in Full Sail 

$200.00 

4333— Pair of Venetian Holy Water Fonts 

With mirror backs carved and gilded wooden frames. 
Height, 1 foot, 5 inches; width, 1 foot. 

$75.00 pair. 


4335— An Old Leather Box 

Belonging to the Carminati family containing jewelry and small objects. 

$350.00 

4336— Five Old French Maps 

With an inscription showing that they were printed to give to His 
Majesty. Louis XV, in Paris, 1740. $300.00 set of five. 

Height, 4ifeet, 4 inches; length, 5 feet, 5 inches. 


4337—Two Bassano Statues 

Of Harlequin and Columbine. 

$30.00 pair. 


4339— Figure of the Madonna and Child 

The Madonna in a rose taffeta robe with a pale blue mantle edged with 
silver fringe. $65.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 inches. 

4340— Pair of Carved and Painted Wooden Poodles $100.00 pair. 

Height, 1 foot, 5 inches. 

4066—Four Carved and Painted Wooden Figures 

Of masks with their mensole or supporting wall brackets. 

Height of masks, 1 foot, 4 inches; brackets, 1 foot. $400.00 set of four. 

CANDELABRE 

LIGHTING FIXTURES 

4342—Venetian Chandelier of Metal and Crystal $250.00 

Height, 4 feet. 

4344 —Two Old Carriage Lamps $80.00 pair. 


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LIGHTI NG FIXTURES 


4346— Large Venetian Hall Lantern of Gilded Metal 


With crown and glass sides. $125.00 

Height, 2 feet, 4 inches. 

4347— Brass Wall Sconce 

In shape of a shell with three-light holders. $40.00 

4348— White Venetian Glass Chandelier 

With six branches. $250.00 

Height, 4 feet. 

4349— Old Brass Gondola Lantern 

With oil lamp inside. $100.00 

Height, 2 feet. 

4350— Large Venetian Hall Lantern 

O * metal and glass. $150.00 


4351— Louis XV Venetian Wooden Chandelier 

Painted blue and gold, four lights $100.00 

Height, 2 feet. 

4352— Empire Crystal and Metal Chandelier 

With six lights. The crystals hung in the shape of palms. $350.00 

Height, 3 feet, 6 inches. 

4353— Two Venetian White Glass Candelabra 

With five lights, glass flowers in rose and blue. $225.00 pair. 

Height, 2 feet, 4 inches. 

4355—Two Venetian Glass Girandoles 

Each with three lights, ormolu bases. The girandoles are trimmed with 
garlands of chains and glass bells and three spikes. $600.00 pair. 

Height, 3 feet. 

4357— Carved Venetian Louis XV Wooden Chandelier 

In blue and gilt, six lights with crown at the tpp. $100.00 

Height, 2 feet, 10 inches. 


4358— Old Venetian Lantern 


$18.50 


4359— Four Hall Lanterns on Brackets 
Carved and gilded wood. 


$400.00 set. 



MARIONETTE THEATRES, BURATTINI AND 
MARIONETTES 


Among the interesting small things from the Palace are three 
Marionette Theatres and about one hundred and thirty-seven 
Marionettes and Burattini. 

It is not generally known in America that Burattini are carica¬ 
tures of people; Marionettes are imitations of them. 

Burattini, which were less aristocratic, were shown in the Piazza 
with a modest little theatre which was movable; the figures had no 
legs and they were held on the hands of the man who was their 
“Marionette Father.” 

The Marionettes were finer and more exclusive. They were 
shown in regular little theatres with tickets of admission and seats. 
They had all their arms and legs; walked with marvelous lightness; 
and were directed from overhead in their speeches and actions. 

Marionette Theatres have always been a cult in Venice, par¬ 
ticularly in the eighteenth century. Artists and the greatest 
mechanicians helped to perfect the little puppets and they were the 
amusement and recreation and often the education of serious- 
minded people, of princes as well as artisans. 

In Venice in 1679, an opera was represented with Marionettes 
(Gli Amori Fatali by the Master Pistochini). The audience, among 
whom were princesses and duchesses, received as a gift the Libretto 
of the Opera and were served with a sumptuous repast by the pad¬ 
rone of the house. 

Among the one hundred and thirty-seven Marionettes brought 
from the Palazzo Carminati are, besides the little puppets of all 
kinds (including devils, ladies of the court, harlequins and colum¬ 
bines and all the other w ell-known characters) a number of animal 
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